by GardenLover | Jan 6, 2015 | Catch Us
This week, Columbus hosts one of the country’s biggest Landscape Industry Trade Shows — CENTS 2015 — on January 7-9th. Debra Knapke will be presenting on two topics: Edible Ornamentals and Complementary Design: Embracing Nature Inside and Out. In the second one, she will share the stage with her daughter, Sarah Arevalo, an interior designer with Trinity Group in Westerville. Debra and Sarah will be weaving together the interior landscape and exterior landscape. For more information on registration and other presentations, check out the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association’s (ONLA) conference website. 
by GardenLover | Oct 17, 2014 | Catch Us
Debra Knapke will be talking about “Biophilia: Understanding Why We Garden ” as the morning keynote speaker at this weekend’s Ohio Master Gardener State Conference at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.
Why do we garden? Ask doctors, and they’ll point to the health benefits. Ask some authors, and they’ll pull out their books on gardening’s spiritual, meditative and stress-relieving benefits. Flip through gardening magazines, and these beautiful outdoor spaces are undeniably a powerful source of creativity and entertainment. Debra was intrigued by the question and has been investigating this biophilia or “affinity with nature and love of living things” as first defined by E.O. Wilson in 1984. She’ll share her findings and how they relate to our work as gardening educators.
Teresa will be working behind the scenes at the event as a member of the conference planning committee.
by GardenLover | Sep 26, 2014 | Catch Us
Bloggers Debra Knapke and Michael Leach are TV stars, this month. On Fox 28’s Good Day Columbus, Debra Knapke highlighted edibles at the Heritage Gardens at the Ohio Governor’s Residence. On another day, Michael appeared on the show to share tips on how to get a jump-start on spring gardening. Check out his tips on planting spring bulbs, transplanting houseplants, and growing pansies and fall asters.
In the newly released fall issue of Edible Columbus, Debra writes about “Ohio Squash” and shares tips for cool-season veggies in “What to Plant & Harvest”. Teresa Woodard also contributes a feature, “Pumpkin Envy”, on Roger Kline who grows award-winning edible heirloom pumpkins.
by GardenLover | Aug 6, 2014 | Catch Us
This summer’s been a busy one for Heartland Gardening bloggers. Congratulations to Debra — named the honorary president of the Herb Society of America for 2014-16! She just returned from the Perennial Plant Symposium in Cincinnati where she saw a lot of new perennials and brought a new perennial sage home to plant in the garden.
This month, Michael and Teresa have been hawking the 2014 Parade of Homes with articles in the BIA Planbook and Columbus Monthly Home & Gardens. This year’s tour in Delaware County was an impressive one with several million-dollar homes.
The three bloggers also participated in the Cultivate 2014, a leading horticulture industry trade show at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The trio attended insider sessions and scouted the trade show for gardening ideas to share here. Michael and Debra represented Garden Writers Association (GWA) on the trade show floor, and Teresa served on a social media panel with other GWA members.
The bloggers also are busy in their backyards trialing new plants, products and techniques to share with readers. Teresa’s delighted to achieve success in growing heirloom tomatoes and find her heirloom Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate has self-sown from last year’s purchased plant. Debra has been entranced with the blooms of two day lilies from Walter’s Gardens: ‘Midnight Raider’ and ‘Mighty Chestnut’. ‘Lava Lamp’ Heuchera has been a winner, too, with its dusky burgundy leaves. With her latest lavender – ‘Platinum Blonde’ – a trial from Creek Hill Nursery, she can now say she has three beautiful “blondes” in the garden. Michael’s enjoying “the generally cool, moist (sometimes soggy) weather pattern that has persisted since May, instead of the typical dry to drought we normally have.” He’s thankful lawns are April green and flowers are lingering for weeks. “Is this my part of the Midwest or a dream?,” he says.
In the August issue of Country Living published by electric cooperatives in Ohio and West Virginia, Michael has an article focusing on how hospitals are using healing gardens to help patients. Teresa’s been producing magazine stories for 2015. Check out her latest stories in the current issues of Country Gardens (“50 years and Counting”), Ohio Gardener (“Annual Attraction”) and Columbus Monthly Home & Garden (“Within the Garden Walls”).
Finally, our blog is being featured this summer in the Columbus Dispatch Real Estate section (print and online versions). Check out recent posts on dry shade gardening and fall veggies.
by GardenLover | Oct 10, 2013 | Catch Us
Catch Us If You Can:
Debra Knapke
Fall is the time for apples and you can read Debra’s article “The Apple” in edibleColumbus. You can also catch her at the Delaware County Master Gardeners Workshop: “Landscape Design Basics” on Saturday, October 12th at the Columbus State – Delaware Campus. She will be joining landscape architect Dennis Karem, landscape designer and TV garden host Tom Wood and nurseryman Dave Dannaher to present a day of information anyone who gardens… or would like to. For registration information check out the Delaware County Master Gardeners Facebook Page.
If black tea is a beverage you enjoy and you would like to know more, Debra will be offering: “Black Tea: The Beverage of Contemplation” at the Ohio Herb Education Center on Saturday, October 19th at 1:00.
Teresa Woodard
You’ll find Teresa’s latest home and garden stories in Ohio Magazine “Timber-framed Treasure”, Country Gardens “Native American Pawpaws”, edibleColumbus “Shamrock Vineyards and The Delaware Grape”, Columbus Monthly Home & Garden “A Tale of Two Homes” and “Designer Profile”, and Ohio Gardener “Garden Profile: Designed for Fall”.
by GardenLover | Jun 23, 2013 | Catch Us, Trendspotting
By Teresa Woodard
Lou Killilea, owner of DeMoyne’s Greenhouse in Columbus, Ohio, recently shared her clever succulent containers for a story, “Thrift Shop Chic”, in Ohio Gardener, Missouri Gardener, Indiana Gardener, Wisconsin Gardener and Pennsylvania Gardener. She and her daughter Kathy shop thrift stores for second-hand treasures to upcycle as garden containers. Check out the July/August issue to see their stylish succulents in boots, crocs, lipstick cases, handbags and more. Also, see Debra Knapke’s post about favorite succulents.
This week, Columbus hosts one of the country’s biggest Landscape Industry Trade Shows — CENTS 2015 — on January 7-9th. Debra Knapke will be presenting on two topics: Edible Ornamentals and Complementary Design: Embracing Nature Inside and Out. In the second one, she will share the stage with her daughter, Sarah Arevalo, an interior designer with Trinity Group in Westerville. Debra and Sarah will be weaving together the interior landscape and exterior landscape. For more information on registration and other presentations, check out the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association’s (ONLA) conference website. 
